My Week/Testimony

Mother of Mine,
Well this week was really interesting and great. It had lots of great things that happened and also a lot of stress, but the stress is what keeps me going and animated. I think you know me pretty well. I always did like the tough situations. It makes life more interesting. Just know that all is well. I really love my mission each day. Each day there are more things for me to learn and more trials for me to learn how the pass with the Lords help. I just love the mission because it has really helped me learn that I really do need God every single hour of my life. I am nothing without him. Well I will now fill you in a little about my week.
1. Well this actually happened two weeks ago. I received the best comment in my life. I was sitting down with a young lady to interview her for baptism. In the middle of the interview she said, I would like you to know something. I have never felt so much peace and comfort as I did when I entered this room and starting talking with you. ha I really was shocked. I really am nothing and I feel grateful that she felt God next to her.
2. This week I was on a division with Elder Hair. He is really a great missionary. It was a great experience. We talked and we joked around and we learned together. I am also grateful to have a great District leader like him. He is a new district leader and is learning really quick. He is doing some great work in his area. I also ate real pizza for the first time in 1 year and 7 months while I was with him. Also I was able to eat pizza for 6 meals in 4 days. It was a great experience.
3. Miracles happened in our area. We found a few new investigators that are amazing. They really enjoyed our first visit and really are great young ladies. I am really excited to continue to teach them and their family. The Lord is really blessing us so much. I still feel as though I need to do a little more so that he can bless us even more. I am trying to do my best each and every day but I still feel as though i can do a little more.
4. This coming week we will have for sure one baptism maybe three. I really hope the other two people will pass the interview and will have the desire to follow Christ. They are great. This couple that I hope will get married is the couple that I told you about already.(They are the coffee story couple). The other person is a little girl that is 10 years old. A lot of other missionaries already tried to baptize her but for some reason which i really do not know the grandma now let her be baptized. They are such a great family.
5. I was able to watch the dance festival of the stake. It was a great experience. The young men and woman here are very talented. I also met a British person while there. He started to come and speak to me in English and his accent was very thick British accent and I told I was born there. It was a good conversation. The dances were great and our investigators loved it. I really helped a mom and dad that are thinking about getting married and baptized. Their son danced and that really touched them. The Lord is great!!!! Again it as nothing that I did.
6. Well I was not supposed to sing until the 19 but we got called to sing early at another musical in another place. I was only going to sing in São Paulo not the ABC but they called us four to help them sing in the ABC as well. It was such a great performance. The choir sang amazingly and the investigators that were there really loved it. Also I got to see a lot of the members from my old areas. One of those people wrote me a really touching letter that someday i will read to you all. We sang Oh how lovely was the morning, this is the Christ, and Oh come all ye faithful. It was a success. That was the first time I sang in Parts and it actually sounded pretty good. Everybody loved our part a lot. It was very powerful. The best one was oh how lovely was the morning. It was very strong. In the middle of the song we stopped singing and let one missionary say the first vision. That part was really strong. When we do it in São Paulo I will be the one saying the first vision in the middle of the song. I am way nervous. haha. It was a really great experience that I will never forget and neither will any of you because they are going to make a CD of it. Yea!!!!
7. Yesterday we had our leader council. It was really good and again me and Elder Loveland (one of my favorite missionaries, a big buddy of mine who plays for BYU football) sang a special hymn for everyone. I think I am really starting to find out how much I love to sing and play instruments. I will probably be doing a lot more of these kind of things later. I really love it.

Well I got to go. Just know that I am grateful for each one of you. I love you all so much. Also could you tell Shane happy late birthday. Also mother happy birthday this next Monday. I love you all so much. Thank you again for everything that you have done for me. Just know that all is well on the mission field. I am not perfect but I am trying to get there. I love you all. Mother you are great and never let anyone tell you different.
Also always remember to be happy because you are and we are all members of the true church Of Jesus Christ. That should give us all a reason to be happy. I know this is the true church and I know that God loves us so much. He really is our father and will be here for us in our times of need. I know that Christ Lives and loves and dies for us this is my testimony that I leave with you in the name of Jesus Christ amen. I love you and until next week.
Elder Daniel J. Parkinson